I checked both RX-V761 and RX-V671 on the Harmony Database, there's nothing listed about Pandora on the available remote commands. However, there were buttons for iPod media player commands.

Incidentally, couldn't you use the menu and directional buttons to navigate the Pandora or Rhapsody menus? Or are you simply looking for a discrete button to call up these network services?_________________Remotes; JP1.2: Comcast URC-1067, JP1.3: Insignia NS-RC02U-10A, JP1.4 OARI06G, JP2.1: Cox URC-8820-MOTO (still trying to figure out how to make them self-aware.)

@3FG: My dyslexic mistake, I meant RX-V671. Don't you love the Yamaha product numbering systems? Seemingly random, or at least confusing enough that you can't tell the new from the old by the product numbers.

But no complaints about the way they implement discretes for just about everything, then don't hide the info as if it were top secret.

Thanks for the info.

@eferz: Yes, I could do the scroll but I wanted to hit a single key for Pandora, another for internet radio, etc. The discretes allow me to do so. Makes things easier for the other members of the household ("Press THIS button for Pandora. Done.")

Do you have enough room in the 2116 to include the 4DEV Yamaha Combo executor? And do you need some help implementing it, since you may not have had any reason to fiddle with it before? You'll want device 122, 126, and 127, I believe.

Do you have enough room in the 2116 to include the 4DEV Yamaha Combo executor? And do you need some help implementing it, since you may not have had any reason to fiddle with it before? You'll want device 122, 126, and 127, I believe.

Thanks for the offer of help. I may need some.

Here's what I've got so far. I'm running a 2116 with extender 3. I have most of my other devices up and running in it. I've overflowed my device memory and IR is using learned/advanced code memory. For my Yamaha , I installed a button modified version of this:

Most of the codes work but some don't, which is why I was requesting codes specific to this unit (RX-V671). But I see that Yamaha is pretty consistent about their codes across product lines, so there must be something wrong with my install, probably the additional protocols required.

OK, as I write this, and read additional Yamaha threads, I see that this is a fairly complicated protocol to set up, and I also see that there are a bunch of things I might have done wrong. Plus I don't yet understand how to convert the codes in the document you pointed me to into ones I can type into RM.

chico,
I think you'll be much better off to use the NEC 4DEV Yamaha Combo executor, since it can handle multiple device numbers. The NEC 5A protocol in conjunction with Vicky's gap helper protocol will work, but in my opinion that approach was a stopgap until Rob wrote the NEC 4DEV Yamaha Combo protocol executor. It's built into RM 2.01 and later.

So I would use the upgrades to get the OBC and device numbers and copy the column of OBCs to a second instance of RM which has the Yamaha combo selected as the protocol.

You can get additional device and OBCs from the Yamaha spreadsheet. For example, the entry for USB Main is 7F01-720D
7F is the hexadecimal representation of the device number 7*16+15=127
01 is the subdevice number. (if device + subdevice =255, then by convention we just describe this as device and don't mention the subdevice). So this is 127.1

72 is the hex of the OBC 7*16+2 =114. 0D is almost the complement of 72, but not quite, and we describe this variant as Style y1. You'll see how to enter these in RM once you specify the Yamaha Combo.

The zone 2 signal for USB is Style y3. That's another reason to use the Yamaha Combo protocol executor-- it can send y3 signals, but the gap helper protocol can't.

chico,
I think you'll be much better off to use the NEC 4DEV Yamaha Combo executor, since it can handle multiple device numbers. The NEC 5A protocol in conjunction with Vicky's gap helper protocol will work, but in my opinion that approach was a stopgap until Rob wrote the NEC 4DEV Yamaha Combo protocol executor. It's built into RM 2.01 and later.

Got it, makes sense. I didn't realize things had progressed beyond the threads I used as my info sources.

I'll get to work on this and see where my next roadblock occurs. By the way, I'm using the standalone IR, not RM IR, because I can't yet figure out RM IR's way of adding devices and protocols, plus it gives me error messages and tells me I'm out of memory while the standalone IR seems easier to make work. Am I making a mistake on this?

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The zone 2 signal for USB is Style y3. That's another reason to use the Yamaha Combo protocol executor-- it can send y3 signals, but the gap helper protocol can't.

Rather than describing how you set up a file, better to give us the actual file to look at. To do so, navigate to the file section using the link at the top of this page, then go to the Diagnosis Area and upload a copy of any files that you think we should see. Then go back to the folder to get the links for the files and post them here, to save us having to search for them._________________Rob
www.hifi-remote.comPlease don't PM me with remote questions, post them in the forums so all the experts can help!

Rather than describing how you set up a file, better to give us the actual file to look at.

OK, I will. First I'm going to start over from scratch, try this device upgrade with no extender, see if it works that way. If it doesn't, I'll get those files to you guys. If it does, I'll keep advancing until it fails, and that's what I'll provide. Trying to keep as few complications as possible. Who knows, maybe I'll find the problem during this phase.

Background: After following the Yamaha GAP code saga from various threads, I first used the NEC 5A protocol in conjunction with Vicky's gap helper protocol to create an IR file that did a decent job of controlling my Yamaha receiver. But when querying why a few codes wouldn't work correctly, 3FG responded that I should use the more recent IR which incorporates the NEC 4DEV Yamaha protocols to access the y2 and y3 protocols, as well as the NEC and y1 protocols.

I have done that but cannot get it to work properly. Even though the functions are properly assigned to buttons in the device upgrade, they don't work correctly in the remote. For example, the POWER button functions as the VOLUME DOWN function, and the MUTE button functions as the VOLUME UP button. The codes in the functions list of this device correspond to the Yamaha documentation I have.

I'm sure I've done something dumb here, but after hours of pounding away I haven't been able to pinpoint my mistake. The uploaded diagnostic files are a test load for an RS-2116 with only one device: the Yamaha RX765, unmodified by me that, as far as I can tell, should use more or less the same codes as my Yamaha RX-671 (according to the comprehensive Yamaha documentation: http://www.awe-europe.com/documents/Yamaha_YNC_YNCA_Spec_UK_Ireland_Docs.zip , in YNC\doc).

Can anyone enlighten me about just what I'm doing wrong here? Please let me know if additional files or info are needed.